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Fourteen teams participated in the 1992–93 Cypriot First Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The last two teams were relegated to the 1993–94 Cypriot Second Division. The 12th-placed team faced the 3rd-placed team of the 1992–93 Cypriot Second Division, in a two-legged relegation play-off for one spot in the 1993–94 Cypriot First Division.

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Cypriot First Division
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The Cypriot First Division is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus, run by the Cyprus Football Association. Since February 2016, it is sponsored by Cyta and thus known as Cyta Championship. The league is contested by 14 teams and runs from August to May, Football was introduced to Cyprus early in the 20th century by the British. Initially played in the schools, it proved hugely popular. Since 1911, when Anorthosis Famagusta FC was founded, many clubs were established, every season, the championship was organized by a different football club which caused some conflicts between some of the teams. As football became established, the clubs were united in agreeing that an official body was needed to regulate the sport. And in September 1934, the Cyprus Football Association was formed, the first Champions of Cyprus were Trust in 1935 but the club folded three years later. The 1930s were dominated by APOEL, who won five championship in a row until 1940, like other Championships in the World, the Cypriot Championship was interrupted, due to World War II from 1941 until 1945. World War II was followed by the Greek Civil War, which caused a lot of fanaticism between Greeks, since the majority of the island are Greek Cypriots, it had a lot of influence in their society too, including sport. In 1948, some clubs were involved in politics and criticized the left-wing as responsible for the War, several footballers from those clubs criticized their club but that followed the expulsion of those players from their teams. Those players then went on to establish new clubs with their own Association. Until 1953 there were two separate football Championships in Cyprus and two different Associations, however, in 1953, the two Associations unified Cypriot football, and the teams which were established in 1948 under the separate association, were allowed to become members of the CFA. Only Omonia was accepted into the First Division, and due to the addition of more clubs that season, relegation and promotion began in Cypriot football. The Cypriot Championship unification, lasted for two seasons. The reason behind this was political, as the Turkish Cypriot leadership were supporting the partition of the island, however, this Federation was never recognized and no team of that federation could play in international competitions. The independence of Cyprus in 1960, was followed by full membership for the Cyprus Football Association to UEFA in 1962, from 1963, the champions of the Cyprus, could compete in the European Champions Cup and the Cup winners in the European Cup Winners Cup. Since 1971, the runners up in the Greek Cypriot First Division can compete in the UEFA Cup, from 1967 until 1974, the Greek Cypriot Champions were promoted to the Greek First National Division. However, due to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus that year, APOEL, the Greek Cypriot championship was abandoned in the 1963–64 season due to the bicommunal conflicts between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots

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AC Omonia
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Athletic Club Omonia Nicosia, commonly referred to as Omonia, is a Cypriot football club based in Nicosia. The home ground of the club is the GSP Stadium in Nicosia, the club was established on 4 June 1948. It has become a member of the Cyprus Football Association in 1953, Omonoia has won 20 League Championships,14 Cypriot Cups and 16 Super Cups. Omonoia remains the team to have won the Cypriot Cup 4 times in a row. In the UEFA rankings of the Cypriot clubs Omonoia is currently ranked in third place, as an athletic club, Omonoia also operates basketball, volleyball, cycling and futsal. The latter one is being particularly successful, having won the league, Club players considering this action as a political comment on the Greek Civil War distanced themselves or were expelled from APOEL. On 4 June 1948 Dr. Mattheos Papapetrou organized a meeting to form a new club in Nicosia, many players expelled from APOEL were also invited and on 17 June 1948 Omonia was established. Along with other left-wing teams such as Nea Salamina, Alki Larnaca, Omonoia took part in the CAFF league until 1953 having won 4 out of 5 played championships and 5 out of 5 played cups. Omonoia was then accepted by the Cyprus Football Association to participate in the Cypriot First Division, after joining the Cypriot First Division in 1953, Omonoia only managed to place 7th out of 9 teams in the 1953–54 season, barely avoiding relegation. During that decade, the clubs best placing came during the 1956–57 season when the club finished 3rd, the team would make its closest push for the title during the 1959–60 season after finishing 2nd,1 point behind Anorthosis Famagusta. The following year, after 7 seasons in the First Division, Omonia, in that season would score 91 goals in 24 matches on their way to their first ever Cyprus First Division title. Omonoia won their second title during the 1965–66 season, Omonia won its first trophies of the decade in 1972, when the club won both the league and the cup. Led by a young, Sotiris Kaiafas, Omonia won 7 league tittles in the 70s decade, six of them were consecutive in 1974,1975,1976,1977,1978, and 1979. By the time the decade would come to an end, Omonia had a total of 9 championship titles and 3 cups, at the end of the 1979 season, Omonia trailed its arch rival APOEL by two championships. In 1976, Sotiris Kaiafas would go on and win the European Golden Shoe for his single-season 39 -goal performance, in 2003, he was awarded the UEFA Jubilee Awards for The Best Cypriot Footballer of the 20th Century. As the 1980s came to an end, Omonia had won 14 Cypriot Championship Titles becoming the most successful team on the island at the time, the 1990s would prove to be less successful than the previous two decades. During this time, AC Omonia only mustered one Cypriot League title during the 1992–93 season and it would be eight years before Omonia would see its next title. In 1997 Omonia signed a German named Rainer Rauffmann who would become the second top goal scorer ever for the club

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Aris Limassol FC
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Aris Limassol is a Greek Cypriot football club based in Limassol. The clubs colours are green and white, its home is the Tsirion Stadium, Aris Limassol is one of the most historic football clubs in Cyprus dated since 1930. One of the members of Cyprus Football Association, and was around between 5th and 7th position in the 1930s. The following season they became Champions in the Second Division and returned to be relegated again, returning to the First Division, where after a good appearance in the First Division, they gained the fourth position. Being one of the weakest teams in the First Division during the 1960s, they were relegated in 1969–70 as 12th. The situation changed for Aris between 1975 and 1980 when the team won again the position in 1976–77 and 1978–79. Two years after winning the position, in 1981 the team were relegated again after finishing last but returned as runners up the following season. The greatest success of the club was in 1989 when the team qualified to the Cyprus Cup final, after the end of the season, Blokhin ended his career playing for Aris Limassol. After the relegation in 1992–93, the won the following season for third time the Second Division Championship. Since 1996–97, when the club was in Cypriot First Division, the team was then every year relegated to the Cypriot Second Division and that situation ended in 2006–07, when the team finished 8th in the championship and managed to remain in the Cypriot First Division. Aris was relegated to the Cypriot Second Division in 2008–09, the finished in 2nd place. In 2009–10 it reached the Cyprus Cup semi-final, in the next season 2010–11 the club was again promoted but finished 3rd from bottom in the 2011–12 season and was yet again relegated. In 2012–13 Aris won the Cypriot Second Division and was promoted to the Cypriot First Division only to be relegated again after the 2013–14 season. In 2014–15 Aris finished third in the division and was promoted to the Cypriot First Division. After 9 years of draught, Aris Limassol managed to remain in the Cypriot First Division in 2015–16 finishing in 10th place, also, it was the only team that used more than 6 Cypriot players in the pitch in every match. Aris has a number of fans than other Limassol clubs. As a result, they are referred to as the 300 of Leonidas. Although the football team forms the centre of sporting activity for Aris, the Aris chess team dominated Cypriot chess during the 1980s

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Apollon Limassol
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Apollon Limassol is a Cypriot sports club, based in Limassol. It has football, basketball and volleyball teams, founded in 1954, Apollon FC currently plays in Cypriot First Division and has won the championship title 3 times, the cup 8 times and the Super Cup twice. On 14 April 1954, the assembly of these members with leader Mr Christakis Pavlides proposes the foundation of an athletic association called APOLLON LIMASSOL. The assembly approved the proposal and thus from that date APOLLON was born. B, the 1st players of Apollon were previous players of AEL Limassol established in 1930 In its first year, Apollon had 8 defeats in 8 matches in the second division. Just before the season, Apollon won the regional group in the second division and subsequently the play-offs. This took place in 1957 and ever since Apollon has been competing in the first division, in its first year, Apollon suffered 8 defeats in 8 matches in the second division. Just before the season, Apollon won the regional group in the second division and subsequently the play-offs. This took place in 1957 and ever since Apollon has been competing in the first division, things were not easy however for the newly promoted club. Apollon couldnt reach a position in the rankings and was struggling in the middle of the table for many years. But in the mid-60s things changed, in 1965 Apollon reached the Cup Final. However, Omonia won the title with a score of 5–1, a year later, Apollon was in the Final again, and won the Cup by defeating Nea Salamina with the score of 4–2, and triumphantly took the trophy to Limassol. Apollon managed to maintain its Cup title in 1967, by beating Alki 1–0 thanks to the goal of Antonis Panayides, after celebrating these titles, Apollon had to wait another 15 years to start making history once again. In the football season 1981–82 Apollon managed to once again the Cup final however in double games Omonia won the Cup. In the 1985–86 season, after 20 years of drought Apollon won once again the Cup in Tsirion Stadium, in these years, it emerged clearly that absent was this something that could make the difference for the team to lead in the Championship. This something therefore was non-other than the German coach named Diethelm Ferner who, the German, with his discipline and hard work accomplishes links between young talented footballers with older more experienced footballers creating a team ready for the big time. Thus in the season 1990–91 the team entered the championship marathon wanting to write the biggest and most glorious page in its history book, after a frantic and impressive season, offering both substance and spectacle in its game, Apollon was finally crowned Champion of Cyprus. From that year and for a period the team gained the admiration of all Cypriot football fans after playing modern football. In 1991–92 season Apollon won the Cup for the fourth time, however, in the next season of 1992–93 Apollon lost both titles

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APOEL FC
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APOEL FC is a professional football club based in Nicosia, Cyprus. APOEL is the most popular team in Cyprus and they are the most successful with an overall tally of 25 championships,21 cups and 13 super cups. APOEL is the only Cypriot club who have reached the stages of both major UEFA competitions. The club was formed as POEL on 8 November 1926, the meeting took place at a traditional confectionery, owned by Charalambos Hadjioannou, downtown in Ledra Street and the first president of the club was Giorgos Poulias. The first clubhouse was the Athenians Club at the end of Ledra Street, hence it was decided to create a track and field team in addition to the football team. The name APOEL was adopted to reflect this, with the A standing for Athletic, soon after a volleyball team and a table tennis team were established. Cyprus did not have any country-wide league until 1932, Football clubs of the time played friendly matches only. In 1932, Pezoporikos Larnaca organised a league, the first island-wide league. In 1934, there was a disagreement between Trust and Anorthosis Famagusta on the organisation of the unofficial league. APOEL and AEL Limassol organised a meeting for the foundation of a governing body. The meeting took place in APOELs clubhouse on 23 September and the establishment of the Cyprus Football Association was agreed, two years later the APOEL football team celebrated its first championship title of the official Cyprus football league. APOEL also won the championship for the four years, making this a very successful period for the club with 5 consecutive championships. Politics, however, would soon spark conflict within the team, several leftist club members perceived the telegram as a political comment on the Greek Civil War and they distanced themselves from the club. A few days later, on 4 June 1948, they founded AC Omonia, more conflicts led to further struggles for APOEL. Athletes belonging to the club participated in national clashes. During this period the team had their closest brush with relegation as most football players were actively taking part in the national struggle. The football team were back to full strength and made their debut in European Competitions in 1963. Two victories for APOEL over both legs marked APOELs successful European debut, as became the first Hellenic team to progress in a European Competition